HC Deb 30 May 1808 vol 11 c713

Mr. Rose, pursuant to his notice, begged to call the attention of the house to that part of the Fifth Report of the Commissioners of Military Inquiry, which seemed to reflect upon the conduct of the Board of Treasury, from the year 1796 to 1799, as if that Board had been, as insinuated in the Report, inattentive to its duty, in controlling the expenditure for the hospital department. The right hon. gent. then shewed, that the Treasury Board had not been negligent of its duty on that head, as would appear from the paper for which he meant to move. He then bore, testimony to the merits and integrity of the Apothecary General, who had supplied medicines to the army on more reasonable terms than the Apothecaries Company did to the navy, and concluded by moving, "That, there be laid before the house copies of all proceedings of the Lords of the Treasury, between the 1st of Dec. 1790 and the 31st of August 1799, relative to payments made to the Apothecary General for medicines and surgical instruments supplied to the army,"—After a few observations from Mr. Yorke, in corroboration of the testimony in favour of the Apothecary General's conduct, and calling on the house to suspend all judgment upon this report till the whole of the case should be before them; the motion was agreed to.